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Why so many tools getting hacked? Tanstack, Mistral, Grafana?

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Re: Why so many tools getting hacked? Tanstack, Mistral, Grafana?

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Because software is a massive house of cards and its bottom layers are poorly-funded people and volunteer groups who can't conceive every possible security issue, don't necessarily engage in every best practice to secure their accounts and publishing pipelines, can't single-handedly provide adequate oversight of all their dependencies, and might fall prey to a targeted attack or tempting offer.

And then on top of that are companies building software and prioritizing new features over revisiting old code.

Re: Why so many tools getting hacked? Tanstack, Mistral, Grafana?

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Because software is a massive house of cards and its bottom layers are poorly-funded people and volunteer groups who can't conceive every possible security issue, don't necessarily engage in every best practice to secure their accounts and publishing pipelines, can't single-handedly provide adequate oversight of all their dependencies, and might fall prey to a targeted attack or tempting offer. And then on top of tha…

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